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looking for tipi village in america to join ... any legal ones out there ?
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
yup, that may not be a bad deal for you. just getting there and back would be the only obstacle. good luck on your adventure. I made some good memories on mine... most involved hunting or building the cabin.... the living part made me some bad memories tho!
NimRand:
Ryan
Thanks for being so candid. Your explanation of off the grid living will take the wind out of someones sails and open the eyes off another considering it. We all fantasize that the grass is greener but it never is. I like most would like to chuck my regular job and for me move back to Michigan where land can be had relatively cheap, even better if there is a cabin on it and live semi autonomous but as you eluded too it is whole lot more work than think. Plus for me, my wife doesn't want to move back to Michigan. Our kids, and grandkids are here and she doesn't have plans on leaving. Buying land in Nebraska is pretty much out of the question. It is very expensive if you live within an hour of the Omaha/Lincoln Metro and don't desire to move to Iowa. Anywhere outside the hour where it is rural is farmland, which is expensive.
JW_Halverson:
If you look back in history, there are many clues to how tough this life was. For example, read the accounts of the mountain men. Granted, only a few ever wrote their memoirs and only later in life at that. There are lots of accounts of homesteaders and how they worked sunup to sundown, only to lay awake at night worried about how they were ever going to make it. Or just look at the once nomadic plains tribes today. They have some tipis here and there, but they rarely spend that much time in them. Even they readily admit that a hot shower and a flush toilet are pretty handy amenities.
Fact is, it was all very highly romanticized. I run in the Rendezvous scene. In camp, we are required to maintain the look of a camp prior to a certain date in history, typically 1840. Folks are allowed to have things like coolers as long as they cannot be seen. I go to the extremes along with other Historical Trekkers and eliminate everything that dates after my cutoff of 1776. It's not unusual to be in camp asking yourself just why in the blazes you are putting up with these miserable conditions when you don't have to.....but a week or so later when you are on the phone with a buddy halfway across the country you are speaking very fondly of time in camp! It's only enjoyed in the anticipation of going to camp, and the relief that comes a week or so after camp when multiple showers have scraped off the layers of grunge and funk!!!
It's fun to do as a hobby, but there is a reason why very few people do it full time. In this day and age when people are being raised with constant affirmations that you are exceptional it's tough to understand, you are very likely NOT a 1 percenter. So, before you chuck it all in the dust bin and run away to the circus to be a lion tamer, just see if you can make your dog in the backyard behave first! And if you are honest with yourself, you will check your motivations immediately. If you are dropping out of common culture because life is so hard, or you don't like your boss, or showing up on time, or you don't feel like giving 110% all the time, you are in for an a$$whipping of epic proportions when it's time to cut enough firewood to heat a tipi thru a long winter...remember, their insulation rating is R-squat.
rockrush69:
A couple things though ... number one ... this tipi village moves twice a year . And has been there for six years . There are rivers to wash in and bathing tubs to take warm heated baths . They are already colonized some . And there is a parking place fifteen min walk away . And most of them work in the near by town . They get food assistance and go shopping in town . And they haVe solar panels and cell phones with internet . And if a tipi is made right with a liner it is actually very warm . And has fresh air and perfect flow for smoke . I understand i will work hard . But as a carpenter and a roffer in Florida. And for five years in wisconsin ( where for one year wi ter included i lived i. An un insulated shack with a wood stove for heat and cooking . ) i lived very ruffly . This will by no means be my first rodeo . But man you guys are all very cool and i do appreciate you trying to save me a bunch of bull crap ! Actually . Most people would just let someone go die out there ... just another Testament i feel like i have a bunch of big brothers looking out for me . And thats a very good thing . Thank you my friends . Namaste
rockrush69:
I have to tell you guys about this cool adventure I went on I took off with o I took off with one friend across the United States we ended up in the appellatio we ended up in the appalachan mountains where we Sat for a long time stuck. Up on a mnt. Top with no gas and had to live off the land for 2 and a half months till we could finally talk my pops into wiring me eighty bucks ... we ended up in wisconsin. And lived on a farm in our van keeping bees for ten bucks an hour and trimming xmas trees . I met my babies mom there and fell in love . I am a musician and was suppossed to be on my way to cali... everything changed when i met christy ... got an offer to be in a band back in Florid with some of the members from "COLD" and " SHINE DOWN " THE BANDS NAME IS "ALLELE" i joined the band. Moved back to florida ... got a record deal with sony atv and hype music ( mtvs label) we have a music video on mtv.com and youtube ( search " ALLELE IMMUNE" ) and got to tour in a fifty ft. Prevo ( tour bus) all across the usa. I have played broadway and everything . ... but the lifestyle was not for me . Being away fromy son was killing me . So i quit the band and started learni g survival . Made my first bow while still in allele . And. Havent stopped since . ( by the way the tipi village has i think eight kids living there one was just born there ) i have seen alot . Done alot . And im naturally an adventurer . I habe a solid network of people all over the usa that i can run to if things go wrong . So if i do go to the tipi village for a few weeks/months/years . I can allways bail if it starts sucking .but as i drive through my city i cant help but be disgusted with how badly over populated it is and how much of an a hole most people are ... i just want a pure life for me and my kids and i would rather work my butt off and keep thwm pure and free of the negativity . Then live in this melting pot of thugs and gangster wanna be s shooting eachother and begging for money . S.w. florida has a pill epidemic going on bad . And everyone here is a junky . I have even fell into it a few times with a hard hard recovery . And i need an escape. I hope you enjoyed my story slash rant . Annd i ment no offense to anyone withm words . I love all of my fellow archers . Peace .
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